Motivational Quotes

Memory

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Memory

People may correctly remember the events of twenty years ago (a remarkable feat), but who remembers his fears, his disgusts, his tone of voice? It is like trying to bring back the weather of that time.

Gellhorn, Martha

Memories can be sad, but sometimes they can also save you.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

Unless we remember we cannot understand.

Forster, Edward M.

It's a pleasure to share one's memories. Everything remembered is dear, endearing, touching, precious. At least the past is safe --though we didn't know it at the time. We know it now. Because it's in the past; because we have survived.

Sontag, Susan

Life is all memory, except for the one present moment that goes by you so quickly you hardly catch it going.

Williams, Tennessee

The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

Rogers, Will

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

Mark Twain

Leftovers in their less visible form are called memories. Stored in the refrigerator of the mind and the cupboard of the heart.

Fulghum, Robert

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Forget those things that aren't worth remembering.

Foley, Tim

11.

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Huxley, Aldous

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One lives in the world's memory only by what they have done in the world's behalf.

Proverb

13.

We have all forgot more than we remember.

Fuller, Thomas

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Memory moderates prosperity, decreases adversity, controls youth and delights old age.

Firmianus, Lactantius

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That translucent alabaster of our memories.

Proust, Marcel

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Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but its theatre. It is the medium of past experience, as the ground is the medium in which dead cities lie interred.

Benjamin, Walter

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For the memory of love is sweet, though the love itself were in vain. And what I have lost of pleasure, assuage what I find of pain.

Lyster

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Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell

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When one of these flashbacks was reported to me by a conscious patient, I was incredulous. For example, when a mother told me she was suddenly aware, as my electrode touched the cortex, of being in the kitchen listening to the voice of her little boy who was playing outside in the yard.

Penfield, Wilder

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The charm, one might say the genius of memory, is that it is choosy, chancy, and temperamental: it rejects the edifying cathedral and indelibly photographs the small boy outside, chewing a hunk of melon in the dust.

Bowen, Elizabeth

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If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

Twain, Mark

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If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist.

Fermi, Enrico

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Memory is the scribe of the soul.

Aristotle

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Our moments of inspiration are not lost though we have no particular poem to show for them; for those experiences have left an indelible impression, and we are ever and anon reminded of them.

Thoreau, Henry David

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Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Bunuel, Luis

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The memory represents to us not what we choose but what it pleases.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

28.

This boy is dead now, I knew it before taking him in my arms, I can remember his face, his suffering, his voice.

Diana, Princess of Wales

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The act of smelling something, anything, is remarkably like the act of thinking. Immediately at the moment of perception, you can feel the mind going to work, sending the odor around from place to place, setting off complex repertories through the brain, polling one center after another for signs of re recognition, for old memories and old connection.

Thomas, Lewis

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It is surprising how much of memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

Kingsolver, Barbara

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But each day brings its petty dust our soon-choked souls to fill, and we forget because we must, and not because we will.

Arnold, Matthew

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The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

Kierkegaard, S°ren

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Memory: We retain: 10 percent of what we read; 20 percent of what we hear; 30 percent of what we see ?50 percent of what we hear and see; 70 percent of what we say; 90 percent of what we say and do

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A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Fadiman, Clifton

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Don't remember what you can infer.

Tennant, Harry

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The selective memory isn't selective enough.

Morrison, Blake

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Time -- our youth -- it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

Santmyer, Helen Hoover

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If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.

Jane Austen

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Never forget what you need to remember.

Bartley, Garrett

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The light of memory, or rather the light that memory lends to things, is the palest light of all. I am not quite sure whether I am dreaming or remembering, whether I have lived my life or dreamed it. Just as dreams do, memory makes me profoundly aware of the unreality, the evanescence of the world, a fleeting image in the moving water.

Ionesco, Eugene

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It is said that God gave us memory so we could have roses in winter. But it is also true that without memory we could not have self in any season. The more memories you have, the more you have. That is why, as Swift said, No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Will, George F.

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That is my major preoccupation --memory, the kingdom of memory. I want to protect and enrich that kingdom, glorify that kingdom and serve it.

Wiesel, Elie

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For the sense of smell, almost more than any other, has the power to recall memories and it is a pity that you use it so little.

Rachel Carson

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Of what significance are the things you can forget.

Thoreau, Henry David

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As with most fine things, chocolate has its season. There is a simple memory aid that you can use to determine whether it is the correct time to order chocolate dishes: any month whose name contains the letter A, E, or U is the proper time for chocolate.

Boynton, Sandra

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The effectiveness of our memory banks is determined not by the total number of facts we take in, but the number we wish to reject.

Wynne-Tyson, Jon

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Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Connolly, Cyril

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The palest ink lasts longer than the most retentive memory.

Proverb, Chinese

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One must have a good memory to be able to keep the promises one makes.